basketball players above and below six foot‚ professional and non-professional who have dunked a basketball. But it is easier for a player above six foot to dunk. A dunk occurs when a player jumps in the air and manually throws the ball downward‚ while holding it‚ through the basket using either one or both hands over the rim. Once their hand or hands are over the rim with the ball they slam it down. In the men’s division‚ the tallest man to dunk a basketball was seven foot seven center Kenny George(Elias
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Many women have misshapen‚ maimed‚ bounded‚ altered‚ injured‚ and changed their bodies for their culture. Foot binding was a tradition that began in the 12th century and became more prevalent in the 17th century. Chinese women practiced foot-binding; this process forced women to have broken and bent bones in their feet‚ for what society considered the most desirable for women. This custom expanded from the class to class. This was considered crucial in order to get a good husband. Men desired women
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Foot binding originated in China during the reign of Emperor Yi Lu when one of his concubines with bound feet in the shape of a crescent moon danced for him on the points of her feet wearing lotus shoes. He was so enamored with her that she became his favorite concubine. The other women in his harem decided to follow suit‚ and the custom of foot binding was born (Foreman 1). The practice continued for dynasties to come and remained until the 1900’s (Lim 1). Eventually‚ the painful practice became
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eat the rabbit stew . In the middle of the afternoon‚ came a man to whom they called Pierre and greeted with much affection and who of course wanted to find out regarding our presence in the cabin . Jean and Claude served the stew‚ to Pierre for my brothers and myself‚ and put a plate in the corner of the cabin for Prince‚ who since he spotted the newcomer‚ approached him and began to sniff it‚ moving the tail as it’s recognizing the smell of Pierre’s clothes. Ah! - says Pierre- you liking
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destroys something‚ they do not feel bad or feel pity because they are internally evil‚ even if they don’t mean to be. When Hughes wrote “Now I hold Creation in my foot‚” that is an example of the hawk’s internal evil killing one of God’s creations to survive. Humans have dominion over creation from God. When the hawk holds his prey in his foot‚ the hawk has dominion. The author is writing in first person‚ showing that hawks and humans are alike in a way that they both will do anything to survive and
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In late May of 2012‚ I placed a trail camera‚ known as a “Plot Watcher”‚ in the National Park. I had concluded‚ at this time in my research‚ that the Bigfoot could detect traditional trail cameras. I had a working theory that the Bigfoot most likely could detect the motion and the passive infrared sensor used on a traditional trail camera. The “Plot Watcher” camera only functions during the day. It does not utilize sensors‚ instead the user sets the camera to capture one photograph every five‚ ten
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Cornell Notes Topic: Sasquatch Page _1 & 2_ of _5_. | Lesson 21 Monster Research | Main Idea: Origins of the Sasquatch. Where they are. What they eat. Any predators? | * Notes: Sasquatch‚ also known as Bigfoot‚ is an ape-like creature said to live in the United States and Canada. Although sightings have been reported in numerous states‚ most reports come from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Numerous Bigfoot sightings have also been reported in British Columbia‚
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When Left is Right Left-Handed Toddlers By Carma Haley Shoemaker [pic] One in every 10 people is left-handed‚ and males are one and a half times more likely to be left-handed then females‚ according to Lefthanders International. Medical researchers have looked long and hard for what causes people to be left- or right-handed. Their answer? The same reason why brown-eyed people have brown eyes: genes that manifest their trait one out of every 10 chances. With 90 percent of the population being
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The Day My Sister Left for College It was a clear sunny beautiful day. The birds were singing. It was at the end of August. The time was getting near when my sister would be leaving for college. She would be going to school in Iowa. She would be off on her own. She would be away from home for the first time. She has never been away from home at least not for such a long time or so far away. I couldn’t wait for the trip to happen because we were taking a family trip to take my sister to college
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realities of the lives of women and men‚ and policy issues relating to gender. Women can still wear men’s shoes‚ but the size they are accustomed to will be labeled differently in the men’s sizes. Although the shoe size is related to the length of your foot‚ the sizes do not follow a direct formula. Subtract 1 1/2 from your size‚ if you are a size 6. Therefore‚ your equivalent men’s size would be a 4 1/2. Above is a dot graph showing the female comparison if she was to convert to a male shoe by length
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